Simone Biles Fires Back at 'Dancing With the Stars' Host

If you're Simone Biles, you know a thing or two about nailing a perfect performance. After all, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist didn't earn those victories (or even just a place on the U.S. Olympics Team) without serious skills or effort. Just last year, she took home not one, not two, but three solo first-place finishes: for the individual all-around, the vault, and her floor routine. Now that she has conquered the gymnastics mat, Simone is taking on a new competition, like several gymnasts before her, with her own turn on Dancing With the Stars.

Because she's already an incredibly talented athlete, it should come as no surprise that Simone has been kicking butt on the ballroom-dancing reality show. However, the one criticism she has received consistently from the judges is that she's "too perfect." For example, last night (May 8), veteran judge Carrie Ann Inaba told Simone to not "dance like a metronome" precisely on the beat; although, to be blunt, we kind of thought that was the point of being good at dancing, no?

Then, the show's host, Tom Bergeron, piped in, saying the exact wrong thing — especially to someone as amazing as Simone. He mentioned that Simone wasn't smiling at her critiques. Her response was straight fire, a burn of the sickest kind:

Total zing. Because why should her facial expression even matter when it comes to her performance? We think she deserved a perfect 10. Furthermore, there's deep-rooted sexism in men telling women to smile or asking women why they aren't they smiling even if it's well intended. In the past, Rowan Blanchard has posted online about this social expectation for women and has told her followers to stop telling her to smile.

Check out Simone's performance (and her firing back at the host around the four-minute mark) below.